Lawyer, diplomat, and
senator from New York. Letterbooks, diaries, legal and financial papers, and
miscellany relating to Morris's mission to London, 1790-1791, his service as
minister to France, 1792-1794, and in the United States Senate, 1800-1803. Also
includes material relating to social life in Paris, the French Revolution,
Morris's New York estate, the War of 1812, the Hartford Convention, and other
events of the period, and financial memoranda of his wife, Anne Cary Randolph
Morris.